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الحكم العطائية

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178 · 12 words · shading: how many commentators stop on each word

اِنْ أَرَدْتَ وُرُودَ الْمَوَاهِبِ عَلَيْكَ صَحِّحِ الْفَقْرَ وَالْفَاقَةَ لَدَيْكَ اِنَّمَا الصَّدَقَاتُ لِلْفُقَرَاءِ

If you want the divine gifts to come to you, make your poverty and destitution genuine within yourself: "Alms are only for the poor" (Qurʾān 9:60).

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Ibn ʿAbbād

هذا مثل ما ذكره الآن وذكر الآية عقيبه اشارة بديعة وتصحيح الفاقة والفقر هو التحقق بأوصاف العبودية المذكورة فى المسئلة التى تأتى بأثر هذه

This is like what he has just mentioned, and his citing the verse right after it is an exquisite allusion (*ishāra*). Making destitution and poverty sound is realization (*taḥaqquq*) of the attributes of servanthood (*ʿubūdiyya*) mentioned in the item that comes immediately after this one

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 138 (printed p. 134) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 138 (printed p. 134)

Ibn ʿAbbād's Arabic: the opening of his commentary on each passage, transcribed from the page images of the Cairo 1319/1901 print and read twice (each comment links to the page where his commentary on that passage begins; the rest of it is on the following pages, not transcribed). English translations of the commentaries and of the passage are AI (Claude) and marked. Differences are computed by comparing the words each commentator quotes with our working text; they may reflect a different manuscript reading, a paraphrase, or an alignment error. About this text.